Andre Holland Quotes

A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Moliere and the Greeks and Brecht and Tennessee Williams.

I'd trained at the University of Washington and had a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting.

I was an English major at Yale, but I did do undergraduate theater there. And I went to the graduate school for acting.

I trained at the Oxford School of Drama.

I went to acting school. I went to college for acting.

I majored in drama and theater arts at Columbia and was always in acting studio, but that was a liberal arts degree, not a bachelor of arts degree, so I didn't have a traditional conservatory training. There was a lot of reading and a lot of writing involved, and only about 30 percent of my classes were directly theater-related.

At NSD, I had an amazing experience learning everything from stagecraft to western drama and Shakespeare, Maxim Gorky, Anton Chekov.

I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.

I started studying theater in school, and then I got into drama school at, like, 19, and it was a national drama school in Montreal, and so it was just you and nine other students for three years, and it was really intense.

I went to New York University to study experimental theatre in 2006 and was there pretty consistently until 2011.

I've taken [acting] class with Larry Moss, who's more kind of in the theater world, so he's really educated me about playwrights.

I went to NYU Tisch for undergrad, and it was amazing. My life then was extremely experimental with acting. I did crazy theater where we would be rolling around on the floor. I would be playing grandmothers, and clowns, and all this crazy stuff. Then I would be doing Shakespeare eight hours a day.

There is a lot of hype about drama school, I think.

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.

Guy Ritchie, he thinks going to drama school is the worst thing in the world.

When I started in the theater, I'd do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women's roles.

I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences.' When you train, you can do anything.

Before acting offers came by, I dabbled in theatre under the aegis of the late thespian Dinesh Thakur. He was instrumental in honing my acting skills.

I had studied at the NYU School of the Arts under Lloyd Richards, who also worked with the Negro Ensemble Company.

I'm in love with the entire industry and every aspect of performing and directing, even writing, and I love working with acting students.

I went to drama school for three years, and the whole thing there is that hopefully you are introduced to a man called William Shakespeare who is the greatest of all time of all storytelling.

My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.

I've never worked as hard as when I was at drama school. It's the most professional environment I've ever been in.

I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for acting... I liked the idea of collaboration, and I thought if I'm gonna write plays, I should learn something about speaking the lines that I might try to write.

I find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me.